kiwiblog Archive

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  Privatisation is not a hit – not even at Kiwiblog - by frog

  
  
  
  Even among those on the right who will dominate participation in Kiwiblog internet polls, there is no majority support for partial privatisation of the energy SOEs. A scientific 3 News Reid Research poll is showing public opposition to partial privatisation as high as 60%. Which makes sense really, because the idea is sheer economic lunacy. read more
  February 22, 2011 8:51 am - 44 Comments
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  Wingnuts: Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine! - by frog

  
  
  
  It’s Good Friday, and I think I now know whom Patti Smith was referring to all those years ago when she sang: “Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine”. Almost a quarter of American voters identifying as Republican believe President Obama may be the Anti-Christ. Happy Easter! read more
  April 2, 2010 1:00 am - 31 Comments
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  An extraordinary blogroll consensus for drug law reform - by frog

  
  
  
  This is really quite remarkable. Since the Law Commission released its discussion paper on drug law reform yesterday, an extraordinary consensus across the political blogging spectrum has developed. read more
  February 12, 2010 10:03 pm - 29 Comments
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  Head of State opinion piece kicks off debate - by Keith Locke

  
  
  
  I received a good New Year present from the Dominion Post when they published my opinion piece on the Head of State Referenda Bill under the title “Hands up for a president of Aotearoa”. This has kicked off the debate I had hoped around my Head of State private members bill, which enables Kiwis to choose between keeping the monarch or moving towards a democratically selected head of state. read more
  January 6, 2010 2:49 pm - 165 Comments
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  TVNZ plan plainly all wrong - by Sue Kedgley

  
  
  
  Obscene is the only word that springs to mind when contemplating the $830,000 salary of the Chief Executive of TVNZ Rick Ellis.   Perhaps it could be justified in some purely commercial enterprise.  But TVNZ is supposed to be a public service broadcaster, which puts the public interest ahead of commercial profiteering. How can New [...] read more
  October 28, 2009 2:12 pm - 17 Comments
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  Banning - by frog

  
  
  
  Kiwiblog has helpfully taken its responsibility to informing electors about parties’ policy extremely seriously, with David Farrar reading every single Green Party policy and compiling this list of things that he reckons the Greens would ban. Even more helpfully toad has gone through and commented on each of these ‘bans’ pointing out which ones really [...] read more
  October 29, 2008 10:43 am - 19 Comments
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  National – Turning Kiwis into Aussies - by frog

  
  
  
  From Kiwiblog this afternoon we find out that National is signposting the way to an Aussie flag. That’s a vote winner. Anyway it’s a defining point for us. In our party we have an Australian who wanted to become a Kiwi.  In National they want to become Aussies.  All practice now – ‘GO wallabies!’ read more
  October 21, 2008 4:47 pm - 31 Comments
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  The Rotorua conspiracy - by frog

  
  
  
  Kiwiblog has come up with the risible conspiracy theory that the Greens have decided not to stand a candidate in Rotorua because we’ve done some sort of back room deal with Labour.  The Kiwiblog commenters have, understandably enough, skipped the evidence gathering process and skipped straight to implicating NZ First in the conspiracy too. Sorry [...] read more
  September 11, 2008 9:07 pm - No Comments
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  Curiablog – the polling blog - by frog

  
  
  
  Kiwiblog’s David Farrar has created a new blog, curiablog, devoted entirely to political polling.  I assume it is linked closely to his own polling company.  It appears to have been set up in April but has mostly sat dormant until then. However, it could be a good resource for poll watchers if it is regularly [...] read more
  July 9, 2008 8:59 am - 13 Comments
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  The hikoi vs the trucks - by frog

  
  
  
  Kiwiblog covers the argument of a commenter that the truck protest will be to the Labour led government what the Hikoi of Hope was to the 1998 National led government.  It’s an interesting case David Farrar raises, suggesting the tide has gone out on Labour. I think while the two events might reflect similar moods [...] read more
  July 4, 2008 3:46 pm - 46 Comments
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  Overhangs and tactical voting - by frog

  
  
  
  Kiwiblog raised an issue that I must admit I hadn’t considered when I wrote last week about why Maori Party voters who are leaning towards the Maori party should consider voting tactically with their party vote.   David Farrar suggests: But what the Greens are calling for, is for Maori roll voters to vote in such [...] read more
  June 9, 2008 8:47 am - 50 Comments
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  Free publicity for Green candidates at Kiwiblog - by frog

  
  
  
  It’s nice to see over at Kiwiblog that David Farrar is continuing to profile up and coming Green candidates, Kevin Hague, Craig Carson, Mikaere Curtis and Virginia Horrocks. I’m looking forward to seeing what other gestures of cross party cooperation he is going to share with his reading public. Luckily he has promised another post [...] read more
  April 18, 2008 8:37 am - 7 Comments
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  The Green Party list - by frog

  
  
  
  There’s some discussion on Kiwiblog about the Green Party’s candidate list for the election this year. It’s probably an important point to make that the Green’s list is determined by every party member getting to vote on the list position of every candidate. As I said previously it’s a bit like a US primary. Unlike [...] read more
  April 3, 2008 9:36 pm - 21 Comments
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  The Owen Glenn affair - by frog

  
  
  
  The Greens have not commented on the Owen Glenn saga, but contrary to allegations from Kiwiblog not because we are covering for Labour or scared of offending the Prime Minister. As we’ve often said, when it comes to policy and philosophy National has far more in common with Labour than the Greens do. And that’s [...] read more
  February 26, 2008 3:59 pm - 27 Comments
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  Green sex - by frog

  
  
  
  Kiwiblog thinks it has hit upon the reason behind the Greens recent rise in the polls – offering sex for votes. Here at Frog though there’s a long distance between going on a date with someone, which the original post discussed, and having sex. In fact it’s a traverse that I often fail to cross. [...] read more
  February 14, 2008 9:20 am - 33 Comments
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  Labour and National’s climate change record - by frog

  
  
  
  Kiwiblog has some interesting stats on New Zealand’s appalling carbon emissions record. DPF is right that there would be howls of protest from the Greens if this happened under a National government. Just like there have been under the Labour led government. As the Greens are constantly pointing out, when it comes to climate change [...] read more
  December 11, 2007 4:55 pm - 9 Comments